[SCCC] Contesting Results for 2009

[Dennis Younker NE6I]

Great stuff, John!  Impressive numbers.  All of them.  The one thing that 
jumped out at me, despite all of this being so impressive, is the 61 
contests operated!  You're an animal!  Keep up the great work!

73, Dennis NE6I


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N6QQ" <n6qq at msn.com>
To: "sccc" <sccc at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 12:57 PM
Subject: [SCCC] Contesting Results for 2009


> Another year of DXing and Contesting.
>
> DXing:
>
> Pick up 4 new ones for total of 324/337 countries.
>
> RTTY picked up 17 new ones for a total of 222.
>
> Completed 7 Band DXCC
>
> Completed 5 Band WAS.
>
> ARRL Lotw Triple Play
>
> DXCC in 9 hours (CQ WW SSB Oct 2009)
>
> WAS in 15 hours (Sweeptakes Nov SSB 2009) - Work 48 states in 12 hours, 
> but took
> an additional 3 hours to work ND and DE.
>
> WAS on 160 meters, (ARRL 160 meter - CW) at N6MXU station.
>
> Contesting:
>
> 2009 - 61 contests and 17,091 Q's. Lotw now has 83,121 Q's with 30,255 
> confirm Q's
>
> My Acom 2000A amplifier now has 625 hours on it (both DXing and 
> Contesting)
>
> Most of the contests were in the Category: Assisted.
>
> I have found going on 68 years old, that my average operation time has 
> drop to 22 hours in
> the bigger contest. So I want to make the maximum points possible in the 
> time period.
>
> The second reason I operate in the Assisted category - my antenna system 
> is at 40 feet.
>
> 80 % of the Q's are S&P.
>
> During the CQ WW SSB and CQ WW CW contest, I made a study how much the 
> W6KK
> cluster helps. I found about 20 % of my score comes from the cluster. 
> During these two
> contests I also Announced over 115 countries to the cluster.
>
> In the last 6 years I made the following Q's:
>
> 29,388 SSB Q's
> 16,650 CW Q's
> 26,715 RTTY Q's. (Started using RTTY in 2005
>
>   2005                                       2006 
> 2007
> 12,577 Q's                           11,062 Q's 
> 13,851 Q's
> 36 Contests                         36 Contests 
> 43 Contests
> 179 Countries (mixed)         187 Countries (mixed)         213 Countries 
> (mixed)
> 118 RTTY Countries            123 RTTY Countries             123 RTTY 
> Countries
>
>    2008                                      2009
>
> 13,851 Q's                              17,091 Q's
> 49 Contests                              61 Contests
> 216 Countries (mixed)           249 Countries (mixed)
> 135 Countries RTTY              151 RTTY Countries
>
> Rig: Icom 7800, Acom 2000A, 4 element SteepIR with 1 element on 40 @ 40 
> feet, inverted V for 80 meters.
>
> Been a good year and can not wait to see what 2010 will bring.
>
> 73 John - N6QQ
>
>
>
>
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